Mr. Jager is an arts and culture writer. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto. He also writes screenplays and rock musicals.
The late British‑Mexican artist shared Hieronymus Bosch’s gift for conjuring figures of such sublime weirdness that the viewer is rendered speechless.
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Guided by 1960s artistic sensibilities, a dreadlocked street artist becomes an observant Jew.
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A new exhibition chronicles in comprehensive detail how fortune-telling cards impacted upon popular culture and sublime bohemian lunacy.
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The Yorkshire painter demonstrated the virtues of a maverick spirit, zeal for life, and multidisciplinary creativity.
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Modest and somewhat reclusive, a new Luhring Augustine exhibition makes a compelling case that the figurative artist was one of the best British 20th century painters.
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A new revival of the 1973 camp classic solidifies its cultural establishment status as its once-daring transgressive sexuality now feels routine.
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Rather like one of her trademark spiders, Louise Bourgeois’s artistic legacy was compelling and forbidding in equal measure.
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The museum reopens with an exhibition that explores technological unrest, but its own future looks assured.
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Like the original novel, the opera, opening Sunday, pays homage to the postwar fascination with superheroes that transcend the shortcomings of fate and circumstance.
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His choice of subjects, often sourced from journalism, take the candid force of a well-placed camera shot and amplify it to almost hyper dramatic effect.
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The piece requires him to keep perfectly still for eight hours a day while kneeling on a prayer bench, with no allowance for breaks of any kind.
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Aside from the blockbusters of note, several galleries this summer are addressing both human figures and the human condition in a pointedly Berlin way.
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